{"product_id":"george-passant-9781509864195","title":"George Passant","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eLewis Eliot, the diffident protagonist of the \u003ci\u003eStrangers and Brothers \u003c\/i\u003esequence, retreats to the background in this absorbing study of his mentor, George Passant, a charismatic solicitor’s clerk. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the years of economic depression between the wars, George – an idealistic radical bursting with notions of creating the world anew – gathers about him a group of young people who, restive and ambitious, trust him to emancipate them from the constraints of their provincial lives. But when his lofty aspirations become muddied with a need for money and desire for sexual freedom, his power over the group becomes a danger to them all.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePolitics, people and the rapidly changing social landscape of inter-war Britain are narrated with Snow’s trademark subtlety and precision in this fascinating analysis of a god with feet of clay. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA meticulous study of the public issues and private problems of post-war Britain, C. P. Snow’s \u003ci\u003eStrangers and Brothers \u003c\/i\u003esequence is a towering achievement that stands alongside Anthony Powell’s \u003ci\u003eA Dance to the Music of Time \u003c\/i\u003eas one of the great romans-fleuves of the twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne of the best novels produced in England in my time -- Frank O'Connor * Spectator *\u003cbr\u003eConducted with a sympathetic impartiality and a calm integrity of observation that are reflected in a style at once matter-of-fact and sensitively precise -- Desmond MacCarthy * Sunday Times *\u003cbr\u003eA remarkable book . . . the work of a man of wide intelligence and sympathy -- Edwin Muir * The Listener *\u003cbr\u003eTogether, the sequence presents a vivid portrait of British academic, political and public life. Snow was that rare thing, a scientist and novelist * Jeffrey Archer, Guardian *\u003cbr\u003eBalzacian masterpieces of the age * Philip Hensher, Telegraph *\u003cbr\u003eThrough [the Strangers and Brothers sequence] as in no other work in our time we have explored the inner life of the new classless class that is the 20th century Establishment * New York Times *\u003cbr\u003eA very considerable achievement . . . It brings into the novel themes and locales never seen before (except perhaps in Trollope). * Anthony Burgess *","brand":"Pan Macmillan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53734047449431,"sku":"9781509864195","price":11.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/george-passant-9781509864195","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}